Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (202 mails)

Re: [suse-kde] OT: freenet.de AutoReply

From:
Paul Foerster <paul.foerster@xxxxxxx>

Date:
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:06:17 +0100

Message-id:
<9F319A2A-5829-11D9-B184-000A95C8A1A6@xxxxxxx>

Hi Andreas,

For the last couple of days I have been getting unwarranted messages
from the
German ISP Freenet.de with the following subject line: "AutoReply:
Vielen
Dank für Ihre Nachricht". It is basically a spam message showing links
to
several pages of freenet.de, crafted as if it was a reply to some
message of
mine asking for support.

... this is an out-of-office reply. It indicates that someone uses a
freenet.de mailbox at work and activated the out-of-office reply while
going on vacation. Now every time someone sends a message to the list,
the list server sends it to his or her list member account too which
immediately responds with such a message.

This is a clear indication that either that person has forgotten to
unsubscribe from the list while going on vacation or, far more common,
that this person is either ignorant of the fact that every list member
receives unwanted crap or a plain moron. Choose whatever you like best.
;-)

The best policy is to NOT subscribe to a mailing list with a _work_
email address.

suse-laptop mailing list members have received such messages frequently
for quite a while last summer. You could easily tell which list members
went on vacation, when that was and how long it lasted, just by
analyzing the emails, people you've never heard of before. :-)